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The Castle, an Uncommon card
The Castle is the last novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1926.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 66
- Power
- 139
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 130,000
Power 139 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
The Castle quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the The Castle card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Kafka died before he could finish the work and the novel was posthumously published against his ______.
Answer
wishes. Kafka died before he could finish the work and the novel was posthumously published against his wishes. From the The Castle article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
The Castle is the last novel by Franz Kafka, first published in ____.
Answer
1920s. The Castle is the last novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1926. From the The Castle article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Brian Littrell. Brian Littrell 450,000 · ARD 170,000 · The Castle 130,000 · Fursona 65,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- In it, a protagonist known only as "K." arrives in a village and struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities who govern it from a castle supposedly owned by Graf Westwest.
- Kafka died before he could finish the work and the novel was posthumously published against his wishes.
- Dark and at times surreal, The Castle is often understood to be about alienation, unresponsive bureaucracy, the frustration of trying to conduct business with non-transparent, seemingly arbitrary controlling systems, and the futile pursuit of an unobtainable goal.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The The Castle article was read about 130,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 66: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get The Castle
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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The cards just above and just below The Castle in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- Diamond SutraUncommon · Arts · ATK 71 DEF 68
- PrairieUncommon · Science · ATK 74 DEF 65
- Aubrey BeardsleyUncommon · Arts · ATK 69 DEF 70
- CoffeehouseUncommon · Science · ATK 84 DEF 55
- GladiolusUncommon · Nature · ATK 72 DEF 67
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, The Castle (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Zassen, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
